It is indeed a good thing. Private equity companies are renowned for their public spirited altruism, and for their pursuit of delivering the highest possible standards in services to the taxpaying public. And if sometimes they can make small, but perfectly reasonable profit on the deal, then thats only fair. After they’ve paid the tax owed on that profit, in full, obviously

And thankfully this model will be rolled out across the rest of the NHS. So that’s something for us all to look forward too.

Note – this has nothing at all to do with the National Blood Service. That is untouched and in NHS hands so donors do not have any reason to be concern by *this* development.

This is a firm that secures blood plasma from other sources to ensure that if the NBS stocks are low we can get hold of blood from other sources.

It used to be a US firm which the NHS purchased and now for reasons unknown (and probably nothing at all to do with money and the stealth privatisation of the NHS – honest) has been sold off to this private equity firm.

The main concern is that there is the possibility that in order to maximise profit corners will be cut when screening blood from other sources and infections, viruses etc may enter UK blood stocks.

i ma live today because someone gave freely.
im adult enough to understand though that folks have to earn a living. whether thats the individual who sticks the needle in the chap who drives the bus or the lady who makes the cup of tea they ve all made a living from the NHS, why shouldnt the company running the service be able to make a profit.

the size of the profit will depend entirely on the accumen of the NHS staff who negotiate the deal for the NHS..